appendance, -ence
(əˈpɛndəns)
[a. Fr. appendance, f. a(p)pendre: see append1 and -ance.]
† 1. A dependent possession, a dependency. Obs.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxii. 258 Townes, castels, landes..or theyr appurtenaunces and appendaunces, whatsoeuer they be. 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 2 Many other Islands beyond Norway..are appendances of Scantia. 1662 Fuller Worthies iii. 116 So numerous is the Church with its Appendences. |
† 2. An external or extraneous adjunct, addition, or concomitant; an appendage. Obs.
| 1561 T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. iv. xviii. (1634) 712 The Masse taken in her most picked purenesse..without her appendances. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 969 Some haue thought them onely Appendances of certaine rootes left in the iaw. 1677 Hale Contempl. ii. 15 Even such a Tranquillity of mind..hath certain appendances to it, that abate that sincereness of Happiness. |
3. Law. The fact of being appendant.
| 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. l. 852 What is called appendance (if I may be permitted to coin an abstract name corresponding to the concrete appendant) is merely a species or modification of appurtenance. The distinction..is merely, that, into common appendant there enters the notion of the feudal relation constituted by tenure. |